as to the hundreds of people filing by looking at the lists of the dead and missing and paying their respects to those who lost their lives however there's also another feeling growing here was well as of grief and that's of anger and questions increasingly growing as to the revelations that keep emerging about the ship just earlier here at the river port a former captain of that ship the bulgarian came and revealed some alarming details about the ship's life before its last voyage. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven the ship had been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators to repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them then when i later returned from a cruise there was another captain waiting on the bank to replace me just so as we can hear there for his efforts the captain lost his job these debates will continue as to what caused this tragic sinking but it doesn't do anything to relieve the

grief here on the banks of the volga. this is the happy scene that should have seen this ship is designed almost identically to the ball carrier in this room almost identical to the one that children on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. as crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat. it was the younger victims that seemed to cast the longest shadow. these school girls had lost one of their classmates. who was really studied together for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was very kind go and was always

ready to help us. as divers reached the playroom on one of the ball daria's upper decks they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. once inside the boat the bite is were everywhere in the corridors and cabins most of them were wearing the life first divers now have the awful task of bringing the bodies to the surface those left behind can only wonder at how fast their families were torn apart. our colleague was on that ship she went on a cruise together with her family husband five year old son and daughter says she was pregnant and was to deliver her second baby in august it is not found yet only her husband managed to survive she and her son died. and for those children left suddenly without parents the terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend for years when she lost her mother and father we're all but will have to look after

and she's only want to hear is old but you know if you tell her we can't she wouldn't understand but there is much that people don't understand about this disaster reports about the ship's engines failing about blocked emergency exits and electricity failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuation instructions going out criminal cases have been opened into why two ships passing straight after the sinking didn't stop to pick up a single person and into why the aging vessel was allowed to sail in the first place but for those who have lost loved ones the case will never be closed. for more on how the tragedy unfolded as well as a first hand accounts of the possible causes of the disaster just log on to our website that's on dot com. well still ahead here on the program hear what ought to be deciding his fate covering london high court session which will rule whether the

extradition to sweden over the wiki leaks founder julian assange will go ahead. over the phone hacking scandal gripping britain it goes international as the u.s. senate takes aim at rupert murdoch's media empire. washington's planned missile shield over europe has been labeled as the main irritant but between behind rather a widening chasm in russian american relations by foreign minister sergei lavrov off the u.s. has brushed off moscow's concerns over the project maintaining the shields only to protect against attacks from rogue states but some say it's taking advantage of post soviet business to see it through i thought he was going if you can reports u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russia for a legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there has been words before washington has many times

said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analysts explained that this urge that russia has for getting everything on paper with promises in the past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but he did it continued recruiting new members so the bottom line is words are good but words even legally binding agreement are better foreign minister lavrov said that's probably the most irritating issue in the relations between the two countries and there is a huge desire to live it behind and to rather turn it into an area of cooperation fix on the grown that being created on the basis of a miracle there should be all design of missile defense which was a. not accepted by us as a reasonable way to respond to what is there sieved as being the opposite of the system so we want to stick to the original agreed that there would be no

parts of the system which would create risks for the strategic stability and for the but in the strategic stability area namely strategic arsenals of the participants of the system russia has offered building the missile shield in europe together but that offer was turned down nato says russia can participate but it can't be a joint project because russia is not part of nato so that moscow says if that's the case let's base our relations on agreements not just words the shield itself according to the state department will have the whole of europe covered my colleague alex a year he went to romania where the u.s. plans to build the radar and found out what it means for the local population take a listen. the voice my of the romanian village of the still cannot believe his luck after washington picked this place in romania region to locate a new raider base locals have been all smiles about hypothetical investment. when

we first heard that the us would build a retard base here we were a little bit scared police who we were informed that having this space with mean better infrastructure and possibly jobs in terms lou cools proposed to consist of raider facilities and interceptor rockets it is scheduled to be built by twenty fifteen and will become instrumental in president obama's european anti-missile defense shield in the one nine hundred fifty s. an airbase in the town of davis cellar in romania was used by the soviet forces now with washington's plans to place the radar station here locals have a job that should book arrest change this foreign policy again the place will be occupied by the chinese similar plans were no joke for some. there european countries thousands in the czech republic and poland protested against the initiative to have military bases on their soil with mixed results while the first line of interceptor missiles was eventually place full and the czechs suddenly

pulled out of it and done the celtic fans while in romania there have been no demonstrations like that at all there is a historical fact and it makes me now one of the most pro or merican countries in the world there is this sentiment and this feeling that. the president of the us is contra balance and specific us is contra balance. presence war. of russia in the region if that is the real case then what security would this new shield provide and most importantly different from who. it is unclear what exactly they are creating soon as we understand that this is them won't be used against russia but will have legally binding guarantees to that then this tension will be result. so experts say the issue will remain a thorn in the side for both moscow and washington at least until next year when

the next nato russia council meeting will be held in chicago by the time construction of the raider facility endeavor solo would most likely be in full swing. let's see reporting from and book arrest in romania. now at twelve minutes past the hour here in moscow wiki leaks founder julian assange continues his fight against extradition at the high court in london sweden wants to question the world's most famous whistleblower over sexual assault allegations but it's important fear that extradition to the scandinavian country will open a way for the u.s. to get its hands on him lower and it is covering the trial from just outside the courthouse. today is the second day of was expected to be a two day hearing over the appeal of jude enough but whether he's to be extradited to sweden we're expecting wednesday to be given a bit to evidence on the hall of the swedish prosecutor's office since yesterday was given to. defense i phone left the court last nights completely tight lipped

he didn't wave to any of his supporters who was standing outside the court he just walked away which must be a direct instruction from his new legal team that he has clients especially to deal with a steering the new legal team seem to taken on a new strategy that much more conciliatory about this case a much more concerned with european door and specifically the european arrest warrant under which students request to be extradited has been requested the legal team auguring that the european arrest warrant is invalid because the discrepancy the tension between the allegations that have been made and the testimonies over the two alleged victims that a full counts to be considered ranging from coercion right up. on the defense team has said that there is nothing in the victim's statement that amounts to that and that no option evidence so a lack of consent in those statements and three of the full relegations they say

wouldn't even amounts to crimes in the u.k. so it's very much the approach that that taking hold so they are during attention to the fact that us almost has not been charged in sweden that he's wanted them merely for questioning and they're saying has the prosecution started has he actually been accused of anything and if no it's then the european arrest warrant is in we may be able to expect a verdict at the end of wednesday but we may know that the judge may refer the decision to another day he may put his off and get decision a few days or even a few weeks time we're hearing. off your report. on our website i could. news and blogs and expert analysis such as some of the stories are lined up for you are right now. to a grocery store. at least a mcdonald's in russia. gives

. two days of. life from moscow now the world's two fastest growing economies india and china. economic face off the giants of huge mutual export amounts but it's mostly roll materials on india's part of china it sells manufactured goods the an even trade is putting in new delhi at a growing disadvantage and. explains. it's dragon versus tiger in the battle for asian supremacy india and china are two of the fastest growing economies with the world's largest population vying for power and prestige in asia and beyond but

where india led the way in i t and back office is china recent head in mobilizing its masses onto the factory floor fuelling a huge trade deficit and a reality india is forced to accept is normal. moving. to india post world class space in nuclear programs yet struggles to create every day jobs making every day goods something this cotton tycoon knows all too well it's cheaper for him to export to china to get the job done than let india buy it back. we make a profit of ten percent more in the international market than the domestic market ironically it's indian efficiency that's part of the problem with supply rapidly outpacing domestic demand. if we don't export then the cotton prices in india will crush and farmers will suffer as they won't get even the original price this will

increase the quantity of cotton and even the indian government is encouraging the export of cotton here in the cotton fields of india lies the heart of the indian chinese trade relationship more than seventy percent of the exports from india to china are raw materials like cotton however ninety percent of the exports from china to india are manufactured goods if india is selling well then why should it matter well having a twenty billion dollar gap with your next door neighbor puts power in their hands and makes jobs in savings dry up at home and economists know that only by sewing up a successful manufacturing sector large unskilled workforce be soaked up but it's a blind spot it's leading to blind faith. and we should focus on the. rest of the.

indian traders seem satisfied too because the set up means the money keeps rolling in. the benefits in exporting is that we get a bigger volume of cotton and we also get paid on time but new delhi is worried knowing it has to cut its cloth before its economic run of luck is sewn up preassure there are tea in door india. just a few minutes away from our business bulletin here on r.t. but for now the scandal surrounding rupert murdoch's media empire has gone international after u.s. senators called for their own probe into a news corp company that follows allegations that some of its newspapers attempted to bribe new york policeman access to the call records of nine eleven victims fueled by public anger the british parliament even showed all the votes to pressure the mogul to drop his buyout plans for the country's largest satellite broadcaster the sky b. richard addus editor of the day online

a new service believes the scandal will grow to threaten murdoch's hold on his entire media empire where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police are selling private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family and the prime minister was is not necessarily the same to sell these things to a newspaper as it would be to sell them to a terrorist organization but if you can do one you may be able to do the other so it's very serious the whole edifice of news international is deeply intertwined with the downing street machine all that has yet to come out and will cause a lot more headaches but i think what people talk to and. expecting is for the scandal to go up through the chief executive of news international to james murdoch and james murdoch himself many people say should step down whether he's for. this escape without serious damage is also doubtful although i don't think he's going to retire or leave the helm of the company. just twenty twenty minutes past the hour

here in moscow let's check out some other world headlines for you and it's our struggling euro has struck yet another blow after moody's one of the big three credit rating agencies downgraded ireland's debt to junk status the move was a warning to investors to steer clear of the bailed out a commie verges on the brink of another crisis the same agency caused a political and economic firestorm last week when they did the same to portugal's debt rating but also prompted a vile from e.u. finance ministers to be more regulation on credit rating agencies. a delegation of the libyan rebels is meeting with top nato and european officials in brussels as the military campaign approaches its fifth month before the talks began the belgian the foreign minister and also the group of belgium the netherlands and look some now recognize the national transitional council as the legal authority of libya and nato spokesman said it's hoped the meeting will be an opportunity to hear a vision for the future of the country and of the current situation. hundreds of

iraqis were poisoned by a chlorine gas cloud that spread across the back after an explosion at a water treatment plant health officials say no one died in all those effective have already been released from hospital most of them were from the city's poorest neighborhoods security officials believe the blast happened to a mechanical problem at the facility. where the taliban's a biggest achievement in ten years that's what the group called the assassination of the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai the other half brother karzai head of the kandahar province a volatile region on the border with pakistan jerry van dyke who back in two thousand and eight was held by the taliban for forty five days says the killing leaves washington was no one to rely upon when it comes to securing the region. well they karzai it was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern

afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s. trying to now focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon you know what the taliban have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate their force someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information and that was an independent journalist and author gerry van dyke well coming away in just a moment here not seeds to retreat with the business news to stay with us. little

pellets the international sanctions as to that takes place in prose on july ninth and tenth. this live in collections by russian designers in the most beautiful just city of central russia. this is a little unfair children's fashion show slowness like presiding over the festival. fashion festival. this is. and i see you watching business with me. gold is trading near record highs as investors run for safe haven assets from the debt crisis spreading across europe jacobson from bank believes to strengthen precious metals will continue until the

politicians find a workable solution gold is now the only currency even though ironically it's not really a currency that is sally dating your year long term investment in the sense that this is a currency that cannot be devalued by printing of money i think the reason why gold is going up right now is that everyone seems to sense that the political solution once again becomes throwing more dead at a day that we need to change that will probably take some pressure off the wrist for healing gold but gold is going up today tomorrow and for the next week as long as the politician play this game of hide and seek and no decision making. stakes and seven companies to russia after accepting a bailout for its crisis said economy these will include gas pipeline companies into refineries russian technologies corp and state run gazprom are among those interested in the assets minsk received an eight hundred million dollar bailout last month as the cash strapped economy burnt through its currency reserves.

european commission has removed quotas for potage coming from russia and belarus the e.u. says the restrictive tear of set twenty years ago are no longer relevant amid growing fertilizer prices. be the world's largest producer by you need surround thirteen percent of europe's demand. look at the markets now it will be looking for direction pretty much all session long flat to negative mostly right now this is as increasing u.s. crude supplies and the debt crisis in europe may hold demand through rule materials therefore brant is declining sixty one cents lights up just two cents. european markets are still trading in the black the gains are limited after a downgrade of led by moody's investor service this is keeping sovereign debt worries in focus of course a burberry group is up more than three percent in london making it one of the top gainers as the luxury goods maker reported revenues up thirty percent in the first two. days of the picture in russia more than halfway through the session the

markets have actually turned red this hour though slightly by just a notch my sex one third of a percent if we look at the individual moves on the my six you'll see that actually some of the stocks are pretty positive as well by gaining quarter of a percent good better than the market that's after posting a one hundred eighty percent jump in first half net profits but that's on the russian accounting standards carly is up one point four percent after that a lifting of production quotas by the e.u. coal miners parts goes on a rally for the second day in a row up four point three percent this hour. despite the nervousness in europe infecting the russian market peter weston from add on capital still believes there are good stories to trade here. speaking of our sectors i do think that in this environment you're likely to see more support for the defensive names like telecoms like utilities although you could argue what to what extent utilities are washed out of cancer but nevertheless the more liquid names like was hydro holding might

not be put in a bad bets you know in this kind of environment but nevertheless you also have the elections to look out for and we know that it is tend to be a social high political risk. telecom so you i mean ross telecom looks really interesting it's going to get the embassy a listing it's going to have a london listing and really we're seeing an increasing interest in that name so i you know this is something which is both defensive but it's also a good story switzerland one of the top ten investors in russia the presidents of the two countries are meeting on wednesday for the you know the ration of the wholesome cement plant near moscow and to discuss a potential free trade agreement now business r.t. caught up with the swiss economic minister to find out one of the there's a looking for when it comes to russia there is a need around the need for technology here in newtown and the technology being. offered by the swiss companies to big companies and to small and mid-sized companies as well and not the other side to be in switzerland from different

branches russian products russian production and development here and there is quite positively and what we stress is being one specced on a free trade agreement this growth can probably be increased significantly and that's what we're aiming at all right that's it from me for today joe and i colleague marina costa russia will be here in fifteen minutes time with an update the headlines are next.

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job as a treat. herin the russian coupled with on so you know why from scuse me every couple of top stories here one hundred and one people and all of which are confirmed dead off russian cruiser sank in the volga river the country's worst boating just off the. former captain of the vessel says it was not. long before sunday's. washington. with moscow the u.s. stands accused of taking advantage of the. center to secure future bases in europe . the world's most famous. continues his appeared at the high court in london to fight extradition to sweden he's wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear that sweden will be only

a staging post to the u.s. . those are the headlines coming up now though people take a look at the political turmoil that spelled the end of the u.s.s.r. two decades ago. is now. can't. stand. alone when welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle an empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called voicemail gate is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business

practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. can . the cross-talk media today i'm joined by tony pettersen in dallas he's a professor and bell distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles we cross the fattiest russell he's a historian and the author of a renegade history of the united states and in oxford we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state university all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want i always go to the person has to go early is for this program so i'm going to go to you thaddeus here and looking at what's happening to them the murdoch media empire and every hour that passes more revelations are coming out and it looks very very ugly does any of this surprise you and do you think it's going to be this is just the tip of the iceberg because murdoch and his people have a really sleazy reputation now we're getting evidence of it.